Oncology & Hematology Coding Alert

The CPT manual E/M Guidelines list 14 different systems the provider may review:

- constitutional symptoms (example: weight loss)

- eyes (example: blurred vision)

- ears, nose, mouth, throat (example: difficulty swallowing)

- cardiovascular (example: hypertension)

- respiratory (example: shortness of breath)

- gastrointestinal (example: nausea)

- genitourinary (example: urine incontinence)

- musculoskeletal (example: joint pain)

- integumentary (skin and/or breast; example: discolored skin)

- neurological (example: numbness)

- psychiatric (example: depression)

- endocrine (example: taking synthetic hormones)

- hematologic/lymphatic (example: anemia)

- allergic/immunologic (example: immunodeficiency disease).